Predictors of Hearing-Aid Outcomes
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Predictors of Hearing-Aid Outcomes
Over 360 million people worldwide suffer from disabling hearing loss. Most of them can be treated with hearing aids. Unfortunately, performance with hearing aids and the benefit obtained from using them vary widely across users. Here, we investigate the reasons for such variability. Sixty-eight hearing-aid users or candidates were fitted bilaterally with nonlinear hearing aids using standard pr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Trends in Hearing
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2331-2165,2331-2165
DOI: 10.1177/2331216517730526